Isaiah 32:6
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6 For (A)the fool speaks folly,
and his heart is busy with iniquity,
to practice ungodliness,
to utter error concerning the Lord,
(B)to leave the craving of the hungry unsatisfied,
and to deprive the thirsty of drink.
Matthew 15:19
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19 For out of the heart come (A)evil thoughts, (B)murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, (C)slander.
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Acts 8:21-22
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21 You have neither part nor lot in this matter, for (A)your heart is not right before God. 22 Repent, therefore, of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that, (B)if possible, the intent of your heart may be forgiven you.
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Acts 5:3-4
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3 But Peter said, “Ananias, why has (A)Satan filled your heart to lie (B)to the Holy Spirit and (C)to keep back for yourself part of the proceeds of the land? 4 While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not at your disposal? Why is it that you have contrived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to man but (D)to God.”
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Matthew 23:13
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13 “But woe (A)to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you (B)shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. For you (C)neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.[a]
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- Matthew 23:13 Some manuscripts add here (or after verse 12) verse 14: Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses and for a pretense you make long prayers; therefore you will receive the greater condemnation
Isaiah 3:15
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15 What do you mean by (A)crushing my people,
by grinding the face of the poor?”
declares the Lord God of hosts.
Proverbs 11:24-26
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24 (A)One gives (B)freely, yet grows all the richer;
another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want.
25 (C)Whoever brings blessing (D)will be enriched,
and (E)one who waters will himself be watered.
26 (F)The people curse him who holds back grain,
but (G)a blessing is on the head of him who (H)sells it.
1 Samuel 24:13
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13 As the proverb of the ancients says, ‘Out of the wicked comes wickedness.’ But my hand shall not be against you.
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James 3:5-6
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5 So also the tongue is a small member, yet (A)it boasts of great things.
How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! 6 And (B)the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, (C)staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life,[a] and set on fire by hell.[b]
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James 1:27
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27 Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: (A)to visit (B)orphans and widows in their affliction, and (C)to keep oneself (D)unstained from the world.
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James 1:14-15
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14 But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. 15 Then desire (A)when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and (B)sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.
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Matthew 12:34-36
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34 (A)You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, (B)when you are evil? (C)For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. 35 (D)The good person out of his good treasure brings forth good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure brings forth evil. 36 I tell you, (E)on the day of judgment (F)people will give account for (G)every careless word they speak,
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Micah 3:1-3
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Rulers and Prophets Denounced
3 And I said:
(A)Hear, you heads of Jacob
and rulers of the house of Israel!
(B)Is it not for you to know justice?—
2 you (C)who hate the good and love the evil,
(D)who tear the skin from off my people[a]
and their flesh from off their bones,
3 (E)who eat the flesh of my people,
and flay their skin from off them,
and break their bones in pieces
and chop them up like meat in a pot,
like flesh in a cauldron.
Footnotes
- Micah 3:2 Hebrew from off them
Micah 2:1-2
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Woe to the Oppressors
2 (A)Woe to those who devise wickedness
and work evil (B)on their beds!
When the morning dawns, they perform it,
because it is in the power of their hand.
2 They covet fields and (C)seize them,
and houses, and take them away;
they oppress a man and his house,
a man and his inheritance.
Amos 8:6
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6 that we may buy the poor for (A)silver
and the needy for a pair of sandals
and sell the chaff of the wheat?”
Amos 2:6-7
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Judgment on Israel
6 Thus says the Lord:
(A)“For three transgressions of Israel,
and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
because (B)they sell the righteous for (C)silver,
and the needy for a pair of sandals—
7 those who trample the head of the poor (D)into the dust of the earth
and (E)turn aside the way of the afflicted;
(F)a man and his father go in to the same girl,
so that my holy name is profaned;
Hosea 7:6-7
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6 For with hearts like an oven (A)they approach their intrigue;
all night their anger smolders;
in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
7 All of them are hot as an oven,
and they devour their rulers.
All (B)their kings (C)have fallen,
and none of them calls upon me.
Jeremiah 13:23
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23 (A)Can the Ethiopian change his skin
or (B)the leopard his spots?
Then also you can do good
who are accustomed to do evil.
Isaiah 9:17
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17 Therefore the Lord does not (A)rejoice over their young men,
and has no compassion on their fatherless and widows;
for everyone is (B)godless and an evildoer,
and every mouth speaks (C)folly.[a]
(D)For all this his anger has not turned away,
and his hand is stretched out still.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 9:17 Or speaks disgraceful things
Proverbs 19:3
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Psalm 58:1-2
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God Who Judges the Earth
To the choirmaster: according to (A)Do Not Destroy. A (B)Miktam[a] of David.
58 Do you indeed decree what is right, you gods?[b]
Do you judge the children of man uprightly?
2 No, in your hearts you devise wrongs;
your hands (C)deal out violence on earth.
Footnotes
- Psalm 58:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term
- Psalm 58:1 Or you mighty lords (by revocalization; Hebrew in silence)
Job 24:2-16
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2 Some move (A)landmarks;
they seize flocks and pasture them.
3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless;
they (B)take the widow's ox for a pledge.
4 They (C)thrust the poor off the road;
the poor of the earth (D)all hide themselves.
5 Behold, like wild donkeys in the desert
the poor[a] (E)go out to their toil, (F)seeking game;
the wasteland yields food for their children.
6 They gather their[b] fodder in the field,
and they glean the vineyard of the wicked man.
7 They (G)lie all night naked, without clothing,
and have no covering in the cold.
8 They are wet with the rain of the mountains
and (H)cling to the rock for lack of shelter.
9 (There are those who snatch the fatherless child from the breast,
and they take a pledge against the poor.)
10 They go about naked, without clothing;
hungry, they (I)carry the sheaves;
11 among the olive rows of the wicked[c] they make oil;
they tread the winepresses, but suffer thirst.
12 From out of the city the dying[d] groan,
and the soul of (J)the wounded cries for help;
yet God charges no one with (K)wrong.
13 “There are those who rebel (L)against the light,
who are not acquainted with its ways,
and do not stay in its paths.
14 The murderer rises before it is light,
that he (M)may kill the poor and needy,
and in the night he is like a thief.
15 The eye of the adulterer also waits for (N)the twilight,
saying, ‘No (O)eye will see me’;
and he veils his face.
16 In the dark they (P)dig through houses;
by day they shut themselves up;
they do not know the light.
Job 22:5-9
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5 Is not your evil abundant?
There is no end to your iniquities.
6 For you have (A)exacted pledges of your brothers for nothing
(B)and stripped the naked of their clothing.
7 You have given no water to the weary to drink,
and you have (C)withheld bread from the hungry.
8 (D)The man with power possessed the land,
and (E)the favored man lived in it.
9 You have (F)sent widows away empty,
and (G)the arms of (H)the fatherless were crushed.
1 Samuel 25:10-11
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10 And Nabal answered David's servants, (A)“Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? (B)There are many servants these days who are breaking away from their masters. 11 Shall I take (C)my bread and my water and my meat that I have killed for my shearers and give it to (D)men who come from I do not know where?”
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